Package: udev Version: 0.141-2 Severity: important Tags: patch
When a tun/tap device is added, /lib/udev/net.agent ignores the event, and the appropriate configuration line in /etc/network/interface is not executed. Line 70 of net.agent says "these interfaces generate hotplug events *after* they are brought up", however at least in respect of tun/tap devices, investigation shows that this is not true. If tun & tap are removed from the list in the following 'case:' statement, things start working. To duplicate this bug, you will need 2 machines: On machine 1, ensure the following is in /etc/network/interfaces # Tunnel interface allow-hotplug tun0 iface tun0 inet static address 192.168.2.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 Now on machine 2 (as root) machine2# ssh -w any r...@machine1. Password: [enter password] On machine 1 (as root): machine1# ifconfig -a You will notice tun0 is not configured with the IP address given. An 'strace -fp' of udevd shows that net.agent is being exected with the 'add' in $ACTION and 'tun0' in $INTERFACE as expected. If the above instructions are repeated with the attached patch applied, the tun0 device IP address is correctly applied. -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/udev/rules.d/: /etc/udev/rules.d/: total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 531 2008-04-03 16:58 70-persistent-cd.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 374 2009-09-18 13:21 70-persistent-net.rules -- /sys/: /sys/block/dm-0/dev /sys/block/dm-1/dev /sys/block/hda/dev /sys/block/hda/hda1/dev /sys/block/hda/hda2/dev /sys/block/hda/hda5/dev /sys/block/loop0/dev /sys/block/loop1/dev /sys/block/loop2/dev /sys/block/loop3/dev /sys/block/loop4/dev /sys/block/loop5/dev /sys/block/loop6/dev /sys/block/loop7/dev /sys/block/ram0/dev /sys/block/ram10/dev /sys/block/ram11/dev /sys/block/ram12/dev /sys/block/ram13/dev /sys/block/ram14/dev /sys/block/ram15/dev /sys/block/ram1/dev /sys/block/ram2/dev /sys/block/ram3/dev /sys/block/ram4/dev /sys/block/ram5/dev /sys/block/ram6/dev /sys/block/ram7/dev /sys/block/ram8/dev /sys/block/ram9/dev /sys/class/input/input0/event0/dev /sys/class/input/input1/event1/dev /sys/class/input/input1/mouse0/dev /sys/class/input/input1/ts0/dev /sys/class/input/input2/event2/dev /sys/class/input/input3/event3/dev /sys/class/input/input3/mouse1/dev /sys/class/input/input3/ts1/dev /sys/class/input/mice/dev /sys/class/misc/device-mapper/dev /sys/class/misc/hpet/dev /sys/class/misc/mcelog/dev /sys/class/misc/psaux/dev /sys/class/misc/rtc/dev /sys/class/misc/snapshot/dev /sys/class/misc/tun/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.2/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/usb1/1-0:1.0/usbdev1.1_ep81/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/usbdev1.2_ep81/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/usb1/1-2/usbdev1.2_ep00/dev /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/usb1/usbdev1.1_ep00/dev -- Kernel configuration: isapnp_init not present. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages udev depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.27 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 2.0.85-4 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii libvolume-id1 0.141-2 libvolume_id shared library ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip udev recommends no packages. udev suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded
--- /lib/udev/net.agent.keep.20090922 2009-08-16 20:14:46.000000000 +0100 +++ /lib/udev/net.agent 2009-09-22 09:34:00.000000000 +0100 @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ add) # these interfaces generate hotplug events *after* they are brought up case $INTERFACE in - ppp*|ippp*|isdn*|plip*|lo*|irda*|ipsec*|tun*|tap*) + ppp*|ippp*|isdn*|plip*|lo*|irda*|ipsec*) exit 0 ;; esac